News Flash: Gypsies protest Borat Movie!

Please note that I am altering NOT A SINGLE WORD of this news article. The brilliant punchline at the end, came directly from the actual article.

Enjoy,
Mr.B

German Gypsies in Legal Bid Against 'Borat'
Reuters
BERLIN (Oct. 17) - A German group representing Roma interests said on Tuesday it had filed a suit to try to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen showing his latest film in Germany.

"We are accusing him of defamation and inciting violence against Sinti and Roma (gypsies)," Marko Knudsen, head of the European Center of Antiziganism Research, told Reuters. Antiziganism refers to hostility to gypsies.

The group said it had filed a complaint to prosecutors over the film, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," saying it treated violence and discrimination against Roma peoples as acceptable behavior.

State prosecutors in Hamburg will investigate the allegations before deciding whether to take action.

In the satirical film, which is due to open in Germany on November 2, Cohen, creator of the comic character Ali G, plays Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh television journalist who travels to the United States to report back on the American way of life.

The film's comic barbs also target gypsies, Jews, women and many other groups.

The complaint adds to a series of protests against Cohen's creation, whose views are not only racist and anti-Semitic but also misogynist and homophobic.

Some of the most prominent criticism has come from Kazakhstan, Borat's central Asian homeland.

Knudsen's group has asked for an injunction to stop the film from being shown in Germany. "We called the distributors, but they laughed at us," he said.

I should also mention that the President of Kazakhstan vehemently hates this movie for the way that it portrays his country. To combat the negative public image that this film will give his country, he has funded an independant film, "Nomad", which is being billed as the "Kazakhstani Braveheart".
Also, during a recent visit to the US, he requested a meeting with President George Bush to discuss this movie and it's effect on his country's morale and economic standing. Unfortunately for all involved, Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor who plays Borat, is British. Which gives American President George Bush, very little influence over him.

This is the film that the Kazakhstani government and an assorted rabble of angry, organized gypsies don't want you to see.

How can you NOT go see this movie?

Cheers,
Mr.B